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“WHOEVER WANTS TO BECAOME GREAT AMONG

YOU MUST BE YOUR SERVANT, AND WHOEVER WANTS TO BE FIRST MUST YOUR SLAVE” (MATTHEW

20:26-28

BIBLICAL FOUNDATION

WHAT IS SERVANT

?

THE WORD SERVANT DERIVES

FROM LATIN WORD SEVIRE MEANS

SUBMISSION OF

ONESELF.

SERVANT IS DEFINED AS “A PERSON WHO PERFORMS

DUTIES FOR OTHERS, ESPECIALLY A PERSON

EMPLOYED I A HOUSE IN A DOMESTIC DUTIES OR AS A

PERSONAL ATTENDANT” (OXFORD, 2009).

SERVANT IS ASSOCIATED WITH

SERVICE RENDERED WITH REMUNERATIONS IS EQUATED WITH THE SERVICE RENDERED.

IN OUR FILIPINO COMMUNITY AND CULTURE, SERVANTS ARE

REFFERED TO PUBLIC SERVANTS, HOUSE

SERVANTS/DOMESTIC SERVANTS, AND SERVANTS

WHO GUARD PRIVATE HOUSES, THINGS, AND PEOPLE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE MASTERS.

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SERVANT LEADERSHIP IS DIFFERENT

FROM THE COMMON

DEFINITION OF SERVANT.

A SERVANT LEADER DOES NOT

EXPECT ANY PAYMENTS FROM THE

SERVICE BEING RENDERED BUT PURE

A SERVICE.

SERVANT LEADERS ARE PROJECTED IN THE CONTEMPORARY LEADERSHIP LIKE HAVING MEDICAL

MISSIONS, CHARITABLE WORKS THROUGH FEEDING PROGRAMS,

AND SERVING THE COMMUNITY LIKE TEACHING CATHECHISM IN PUBLIC

SCHOOL WITHOUT ANY REMUNERATION – PURELY

SERVICEFOR THE GLORY OF GOD AND HIS PEOPLE.

IN ANY OFFICES AND SCHOOL CAMPUSES,

ANYONE CAN BECOME A SERVANT LEADER LIKE

SERVING AS FACULTY OFFICER WIHTHOUT ANY

REMUNERATION, A STUDENT WHOSERVES IN A STUDENT COUNCIL, AND AN EMPLOYEES’ WELFARE ASSOCIATIONS WITHOUT ANY REMUNERATION AT

ALL.

SERVANT LEADERS ENTAIL SERVICE EVEN TO

THEIR OWN EXPENSE AND GIVING EXTRA

EFFORTS FOR THE SAKE OF COMMON GOOD AND SMOOTH RELATIONSHIP

AMONG STUDENTS, EMPLOYEES AND

MANAGEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY.

BIBLICAL

LEADERSHIP

IMAGES

THERE ARE THREE STRIKING RECURRENT BIBLICAL IMAGES OF

LEADERSHIP IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ALL BEGINNING

WITH THE LETTER ‘S’:

SERVANT,

SHEPERD AND

STEWARD.

AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN

LEADERSHIP IS FOLLOWING JESUS

CHRIST AS PROPOSED BY THESE GOSPEL IMAGES OF SERVANT, SHEPERD

AND STEWARD.

“THE SERVANT IS ASSOCIATED WITH

THE LEADER AS SERVANT THROUGH SERVICE, SUPPORT

AND EMPOWERMENT. AS JESUS SAID, “I AM AMONG YOU AS ONE WHO SERVES” (LK

22:27).

CHRISTIAN LEADER,

WHETHER IN CHURCH,

BUSINESS AND CIVIC

ORGANIZATION, “MUST SEE HIS OR HER WORK TRULY

AS MINISTRY.

WHAT DO YOU DO MUST BE BASED ON

WHO YOU ARE: SERVANT, SHEPERD AND

STEWARD OF THE LORD.

THROUGH YOUR LIFE AND LEADERSHIP SERVICE, YOU MUST TREAT OTHERS WITH

RESPECT, JUSTICE, FAIRNESS AND LOVE.

YOUR ACTION WILL MANIFEST OT THE WORLD ABOUT GOD’S LOVE, JUSTICE

AND CARE.

THE IMAGE OF SERVANT IN THE

HOLY BIBLE SPEAKS OF

GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE.

THANK YOU!